SUBURBAN TRAIN BELO HORIZONTE
CAF signed in 2012 a contract to supply 10 suburban trains, 4-car each, to CBTU (Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos) for the Brazilian city Belo Horizonte, capital of the Minas Gerais state.
These state-of-the-art bidirectional electric units boast a passenger capacity of 1,500 and are designed to facilitate train access for persons with reduced mobility. CAF has a large experience in supplying this type of vehicle in this country having supplied similar trains to CPTM previously, in Sao Paulo.
The Belo Horizonte city has a population of 2.3 million inhabitants and is one of the host cities designated for the FIFA World Cup 2014, as well as a sub-host city for the Summer Olympic Games 2016.
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Technical data sheet
- CompositionMc-M-T-Mc
- Train length (mm): 90,403
- Total Passenger Capacity 1,576
- Maximum speed (km/h) 90
- Equipment
- Air conditioning
- Passenger information: exterior destination information sign, audio information with loud speakers, signs, LED route maps and TFT screens
- Analogue train-ground voice communication system
- Wireless communication controller to send and receive data to and from ground via WiFi
- ATC
- Video surveillance
- Derailing sensor
- Flange lubrication
- Event recorder with train activation by digital fingerprint
- Fire detection equipment